Compare And Contrast The Pedestrian And Harrison Bergeron

Zach Pierce
Ms.Kerpash
English III
9 September 2016
Extreme Government

Most Science Fiction Stories depend on space, the part of innovation on humankind, or the part of government in the general public. Both Stories, Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury, have the same basic topic compelling government control. Both Stories consolidate the government's gaining of power in the future. But Pedestrian is much more convincing of future excessive government control.
In Harrison government control is exemplified while in The Pedestrian, government control is less compelling. In "Harrison Bergeron" everybody is equivalent. This may appear like something worth being thankful for at first yet when you consider it you

George is an above normal individual and is impeded as a result of it, or favorable position over other people. He has a receiver in his ear which gets signals from an administration transmitter. Each time he is contemplating something it will emit a piercing sound in his ear to stop his line of reasoning. He is likewise physically incapacitated with weights. Amid the story, George and Hazel are watching a project on T.V. It is a gathering of ballet dancers moving, all with various impairments, one including a veil to shield her beauty . Later in the show, a boy, seven feet tall I may include, goes onto the stage. He happens to be their child, Harrison Bergeron, and believes all the impairments are wrong and immoral . He continues to rip off his substantial physical impedes, and takes the veil off the ballet dancer. The Handicapper General, the person who set up these laws appears on the stage, and shoots fourteen year old Harrison and the ballet dancer, with a shotgun. George and Hazel see this on T.V. what's more, don't understand it is their own child being shot due to their handicaps. In the second story, "The Pedestrian" Ray Bradbury depicts a man, Leonard Mead,

Harrison uses imagery like "Two years in prison and two thousand dollars fine for every ball I took out" As George describes the punishment of altering with his handicap. The government rules and regulations are taken to a extreme state, and shows us what the future could be like if the government becomes too powerful. In the Pedestrian government control is still extreme but not as extreme. In the Pedestrian almost everyone in the world was watching T.V., and a city only needed one police car “The police, of course, but what a rare, incredible thing; in a city of three million, there was only one police car left, wasn't that correct? Ever since a year ago, 2052, the election year, the force had been cut down from three cars to one.” The government has so much power that because everyone in the world is hypnotized by T.V so they do not have to put out an authority in a 3 million populated city. The future will never get close to anything like what occurred in Harrison Bergeron. America is way too focused on individual ideals and encouraging you to be different and achieve, but then we are asked to "fit in" and conform as well. Kind of an oxymoron, but the world is still focused on individual achievement and will never come close to anything in Harrison Bergeron. While in the Pedestrian many examples of government